Coupling.



No. 787,296. PATENTED APR-.11, 1905. O. L. HOOKNEY & W. R. GURTISS.

COUPLING.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 25, 190;.

Uni'ren STATES Patented April 11, 1905r PATENT @rricc.

CllFiSlER L. llOCKNEY AND \VlLLlAL\[ R. C/URTISS, OF SILVERLAKE, \VISCONSIN.

COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 787,296, dated April 11, 1905. Application filed November 26, 1904. Serial No. 234,425.

Be it known that we. Ciins'rnn li. lloen- NEY and WiLLmu R. tt'mfiss, citizens of the l'nited States. residing at Silverlake, in the county of Kenosha and State of isconsin. have invented new and useful Improvements in Couplings. of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to couplings designed especially for use upon traction-engines for connecting a harvester or other ag- 1 ricultural machine therewith, and has for its objects to produce simple inexpensive device of this character, wherein the vehicle may be readily and securely coupled to the engine and one in which the vehicle may be readily guided during its travel over the ground.

A. further object of the invention is to provide a coupling of this type embodying a steering mechanism under thorough control of and adapted for convenient manipulation by the engineer or other attendant.

To these ends the invention comprises the novel features of construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter described.

ln the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of portions of a tractionengine and thresher, showing our improved device applied for coupling the machine one to the other. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the coupler detached from the engine. Fig. I) is a detail plan view, partly in section, of the device. Fig. 1 is a transverse sectional elevation, the section being taken on the line 1 1 of Fig. 2 and on an enlarged scale.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a traction-engine of the usual construction, provided with a rear platform 2, and 3 a threslung-machine having a tongue or pole 4, connected with the front axle of the thresher and adapted by transverse movement to guide the machine in its travel over the ground, as usual.

Bolted or otherwise attached to the rear 1 edge of the platform 2 is an angle-bar 6 t 1n verted-L torm in cross-section, having an upper llango l and provided at its lower edge adjacent its ends with supplemental flanges j or ears 8, there being arranged adjacent each end of the bar or member 6 a vertical actuat ing member or post 9, journaled for rotation in bearings formed in the flanges 7 and S and equipped at its upper end with a handwheel 10.

j Arranged for sliding movement upon and longitudinally of the angle-bar 6 is a primary 1 coupling member 11, cast or otherwise 1 formed from a single piece of metal and comprising a body horizontal portion 12, provided with upper and lower plates 13 14, j spaced to produce a seat or recess 15 for the j reception of the llangc 7, and a downturned j vertical portion or flange 16, adapted to hear I upon the outer vertical face of the bar 6, this ilange 16 being carried by the plate 14, while the horizontal portion 12-, which is perforated, as at 17, adjacent its rear end, has formed upon the inner terminal of its upper plate 15 a downturned engaging portion or flange 18, adapted to bear upon the forward vertical face of the bar 6 to maintain the member 11 in engagement with the latter. Fixed upon and for rotation with the ac tuating members or posts 9 are sprocketwheels 19, carrying a sprocket-chain 20, the, meeting ends of the forward [light of which are riveted or otherwise rigidly attached to the flange 16 of the coupling member 11, whereby travel of the chain upon the sprocketwheels, owing to rotation of either of the members 9, will effect a movement of the coupling member 1 1 upon and longitudinally of the bar 6, as will be readily understoml.

Fixcdly attached to the outer end of the pole 4 is a pair of secondary coupling members or plates 21, spaced to receive between them the rear end of the horizontal portion 12 of the member 11. and having suitable perforations adapted to aline with the perfora- 1 tion 17 for the reception of a coupling-pin 22. In practice, supposing the thresher and j traction-engine to be coupled, as illustrated in Fig. 1, rotation of either of the actuating members 9 in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 3 will cause a movement of the i tongue 1 to the left, thus guiding the threshcr in a corresponding direction, while a reverse rotation of either of the members 9 serves to move the tongue to the right for turning the thresher in that direction,

From the foregoing it is apparent that we produce a device of simple construction which may be readily attached to a tractionengine and manipulated for guiding a vehicle drawn by the engine in its travel over the ground and one wherein the steering mechan ism will be convenient to and under thorough control of the attendant. In attaining these ends it is to be understood that minor changes in the details herein set forth maybe resorted to Without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. In a device of the class described, a guide member adapted for attachment to a vehicle, a coupling member arranged for travel longitudinally of the guide member, a

rotary actuating member carrying a pulley, a belt arranged upon and for movement by the pulley, and designed for moving the coupler, and means for connecting the coupler with a second vehicle.

2. In a device of the class described, a

gu1de-bar adapted for attachment to a vehicle, 5

CHESTER L. HOCKNEY. WILLIAM R. CURTISS.

I/Vitnesses:

JAMES H. READING, REUBEN H. LEITING.

said belt being connected with 1 

